mari-rochelle.bsky.social
Historian: Western post-Cold War FP; US/Euro security; modern treaty history…aerospace/nuclear history & policy for fun.
History geek, PoliSci wonk.
Unapologetic LGBTQ+ rights proponent.
Transgender lives matter!
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This poster is from the U.S. Holocaust Museum. Download and spread this image. We have to recognize these signs before it's too late.
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Not to mention the cost. Big Pharma has an ad-to-research ratio of more than 10:1
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Peter Thiel – Pumped $1M+ into Trump’s 2016 campaign and some call JD Vance his protégé.
FUN FACT: He went to a school in South Africa, where they greeted each other with heil Hitler, and celebrated Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
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Cowards, all. And if you allow Ukraine to fall by your inaction, you’ll be accomplices in mass murder, as well as the beginning of the end for NATO.
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Liz Cheney knowingly sacrificed her career, as did Adam Kinzinger, because they made the calculus: Who am I and what are my core values? And they deduced that there are bigger things in this world than themselves.
Thus far, not a single other elected Republican has come to a similar conclusion.
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This is your moment. History will document your names right alongside his. I’m looking at you, Lindsey the Lionhearted. Ted the Turd. Joni, Queen of Castraters. Rise up. Fear not the mean-tweet.
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This quote has never been more relevant: “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil, is for good men to do nothing.” ~ Edmund Burke
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But that can only happen if you let it.
Yes, I know, you murmur amongst yourselves over how you had to swallow hard to vote for Tulsi Gabbard, or stay silent when USAID and the NPS was gutted. Take a hard stand now, and say HELL NO, or… you’re as complicit as he is.
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But now he and his 38 million fellow Ukrainians face a new threat: Blatant betrayal by the President of the United States. If Trump follows through, Zelenskyy himself, perhaps the most iconic example of raw courage in the world today, will be hunted. And if captured, meted out Navalny justice.
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When offered a chance to be airlifted out of his embattled nation, he turned it down and confronted the threat pouring over his nation’s borders. He then addressed his people from a darkened corner somewhere in Kyiv, reassuring them that he and his government will stand and fight on their behalf.
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At the far end of the courage spectrum from you and at the far side of the planet, there’s a guy named Volodimr Zelenskyy. He must look like an alien species to you, because his priorities are diametrically opposed to yours.
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But that was then and this is now. You’ve ceded your authority because of Liz Cheney.
In the hierarchy of things that matter to you, in order, are:
• Me
• My personal safety
• Not getting mean-tweeted
• Getting re-elected
• People who won’t vote for me
• People in shithole countries
• The nation
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You’re in a unique position. Hard as it is to believe, you’re the gatekeepers. Once upon a time, in a magical epoch known as pre-Trump, Congress was a coequal branch of government. That means YOU had it within your power to keep lawlessness and tyranny in check.
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You fidgeted in your seats a bit when he shook his fist at Mexico, Canada, Panama and Denmark. But no outright condemnation from any of you, because again, you can’t: the spirit of Liz Cheney might haunt you.
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You’ve watched in silence as his hatchet man—or should I say his chainsaw man—has wiped out the careers of untold thousands of Americans, the cascading effects of which will no doubt threaten the very existence of poverty-stricken communities who rely on America’s bounty and generosity.
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But what’s done is done. You didn’t want to suffer the indignity of being mean-tweeted, so you seated a drunk who paid a woman $50k to buy her silence to become US Secretary of Defense, an anti-science conspiracy theorist for Health and Human Services and a man who openly hates the FBI to run it.
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And he knows it, which is why he does it; to control you. To get you to confirm the most unqualified Cabinet secretaries in American history. If the gravity of that situation wasn’t so solemn, it would be comical.
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45/47 is not ending the Cold War, he’s reinvigorating it by switching sides.
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30 days to get EVERYTHING out! Anything left behind is “abandoned in place” and becomes property of the host nation.
Don’t get me wrong, I feel that NATO is an essential component in European security. I also feel that the US has not only gotten a substantial ROI, but stands to lose tremendously.
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On this path DC, the country, then the world will become post-apocalyptic wastelands.
The Zombie-Fascist apocalypse is breathing down our necks.
By all reports, only one way to eliminate a Zombie-Fascist…
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Night of the long knives!
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It’s an act of fear and cowardice.
The truth is the thing they fear the most, so much so they can’t even tell the truth.